Did you know you can use avocado in place of oil in baked goods? These chocolate cookies use avocado instead of oil for a deliciously fudgy texture.
It all started with these avocado muffins. It was the perfect way to use up a leftover avocado that was on the verge of being thrown out. Aren’t avocados are so hard to time? For days, they’re a rock and then suddenly they’re mushy. When you buy a whole bag, sometimes it’s hard to use them all up before they go bad, so I started using them in baking recipes. They’re such a perfect, healthy swap for butter or oil so I decided to turn them into a cookie!
These chocolate avocado cookies are rich and fudgy, almost like a dense brownie, but they’re healthier than most cookies! Did I mention that these cookies are so easy to make?
The avocado is a great source of healthy fat and the whole wheat pastry flour is a good source of protein and fiber. The coconut sugar has a lower glycemic index than standard sugar, which means your blood sugar won’t spike like it would with a traditional cookie.
PrintChocolate Avocado Cookies
These chocolate cookies use avocado instead of oil for a deliciously fudgy texture.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 10
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Dessert
Ingredients
- 1 ripe avocado, pitted and peeled
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- In a food processor, combine the avocado, egg, vanilla, and sugar. (If you don’t have a food processor, you can use an immersion blender or hand mixer.) Blend until the avocado chunks are smooth.
- Stir in the salt, baking soda, flour, and cocoa.
- Add in the mini chocolate chips.
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet or lay down a silpat mat and drop rounded tablespoons of cookie dough onto the sheet. They won’t spread much so you don’t need much room in between.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. I only baked mine for 9. Do NOT over bake them!
- Remove from the oven and let them cool for a few minutes before removing from the pan.
Keywords: Avocado Cookies
You can mix everything in one bowl, so there’s no need to dirty extra dishes. They also don’t spread very far, so you can fit quite a few on a pan. Just make sure you grease the pan or use a silicone mat, as they tend to stick to a cookie sheet.
I actually made a batch of these before we hit the road to visit Ohio for the weekend. Of course, I left them on the counter so we didn’t actually get to eat the rest of these. They would have been a nice road trip snack, though! Luckily we still had some of these healthy road trip snacks with us, so we survived! We had such a fun weekend visiting friends and family, seeing my cousin get married, and celebrating my nephew’s 3rd birthday. I was actually pretty disconnected from my phone & computer for a few days, so it was a nice little break. Now it’s back to the grind! The Tone It Up 7 Day Slim Down starts today, to wrap up the end of the challenge, so I’ll be working out hard and focusing on lots of healthy food!
What’s your favorite kind of cookie?
These sound good. I love chocolate and I love avocado, bringing them together for cookies is genius.
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I just love how fudgy and chocolaty these look! I bet they taste incredible.
Such a good recipe idea! Would’ve never thought to combine chocolate and avocado. Both some of my favorite foods! Have a good day liz!
It’s funny because this morning I was looking for simple baked good avocado recipes and then this popped up. I’m going to make the muffins today I think.
I had some chocolate avocado pudding recently and it was pretty good! I’d try it again- I love the idea of a healthier chocolate cookie! And you’re so right about timing avocados.. It’s a waiting game I play constantly lol
I usually use avocado in chocolate pudding, but I haven;t used it in cookies before. That is something that I need to try at the weekend.
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Those look so fudgy! I’m on board!
How healthy! I love that you used avocado in this! Can you taste it?
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Doe graag mee, ook al woon ik in Frankrijk, want die 6 kilo willen er maar niet af. En natuurlijk een grote fan van Linda; elke maand smullen van haar blad. Topvrouw!
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This is such a creative recipe, I’ve made zucchini brownies before, but never used avocado in anything sweet, and these look so rich and decadent 🙂
I ALWAYS miss my window with avocados haha. I love the idea of putting them in cookies, though, these look so good!
These look so scrumptious, Liz! I have never tried avocado in cookies but it sounds like a real winner. Can’t wait to give these babies a try 🙂
Oh yes, these sound amazing! I love how easy they are!
That’s such a great idea to use avocado! They look so good.
xo,
Angela
Yum–ive been dying to try chocolate avocado mousse–i bet this is also delicious! Avocados are definitely hard to use up in time…i always buy the bags when they’re so cheap during the summer!
Ooooh, these look so fudgy and delicious! You can never go wrong with chocolate!
I just made chocolate avocado pudding and I love it! never knew you could make cookies too! These look amazing!
Oh my gracious, do I need to make these ASAP. Traditional chocolate chip cookies are my favorite dessert in the world (hello, cookie cake!), but brownies are a close second, and I feeeeel like you just may have created a monster. 😉
These look so delicious!
A great use of avacado, and a lovely idea to enjoy a healthier taste of chocolate for those moments when you just need some goodness.
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I love avocado but haven’t used in baking yet, beautiful and tempting cookies! Lovely combo
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I’ve always wanted to experiment with avocados in baking, and these look great. Definitely have to try.
Such a creative recipe! I’ve never tried to add avocado as a replacement for butter in cookies before. I need to try this recipe soon.
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i need to play around with avocados more, these look delicious
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Hi,
Can you use regular white flour instead?
Thanks!
We love avocados!! Love that you made a delicious chocolate cookie with them!
Yummy! I love it that you used WW pastry flour in these cookies. I’m all for gluten free baking, but I’ll always love my traditional flour for pastry 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
I am from CA so we work in Avocados where ever we can! Nice job!
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Wow… Never had avocado in my cookies before.. Such a great use of the healthy avocado.. Think I’m going to have to try this some day.
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I love any opportunity to consume chocolate while getting some nutrition in there as well!
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These look so chocolaty. Will be pinning this for later.
Super disappointing when I see a 5 star rating, and then read the reviews, only to find not one person has made the cookies! Comment without adding stars if you haven’t made and tasted them please.